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Actually, the "irrelevant" text is usually code in another language. As such, it should be colored in the color scheme appropriate to that other language.

There's a separate thread on this this here. It's even got a poll!

...the small are too small No they're not! The smaller the better. Smaller icons = more workspace. Agreeing with Bob here. That said, whilst I'd be a little disappointed if the TextPad team spent valuable development time on icons instead of features, I'd have no objection whatsoever if JML or some...

That's nice. Your place or mine? 8) Panicke ye nott. I think TP will not need to parse things into tokens. It's much simpler than that. TP already knows what is a comment and what is not, or it wouldn't be able to paint them a different color. I seem to remember there's a separate thread somewhere a...

Just wondering whether or how you could write a syntax file for matching the beginning and end of block in the language Python . For those who don't know, Python uses neither braces, nor begin/end to delimit blocks. Instead, it uses line-oriented INDENTATION. Basically, if a non-blank line is indent...

Well, a script language like EMACS (and no, I'm not suggesting LISP here) allows you to do things like: /* Pseudo-code. Pretend it's C */ cursor_pos x = get_cursor_pos(); /* any code */ cursor_pos y = get_cursor_pos(); /* any code */ set_cursor_pos(x); /* any code */ set_cursor_pos(y); You wouldn't ...

Not so. Firstly, I don't know what Unicode "compliance" means. So far as I am aware, it is not a formally defined term. On the other hand, Unicode "conformance" is precisely defined, and is EXACTLY what you need to fix that bug. Unicode conformance means explicitly this - thou sh...

Well, in reality, I don't think ANY program is going to implement all of the features listed above for a long, long time. Even UniPad (a text editor whose selling point is Unicode features) doesn't implement all of them. Some of the features I list (in partular things like locale-sensitive-sorting, ...

Double clicking on a tab name to close the document is even better, since not everyone has a mouse with a scroller That may be true - but it's also true that the cost of a new mouse is peanuts. My an optical three-button wheel mouse was something like twenty quid (British pounds), which is less tha...

I could be wrong, but I'm not entirely sure TextPad even HAS a concept of #include files. TextPad lets you edit the source files (for any language), but only a compiler (strictly speaking, a preprocessor) needs to know about an include path - and TextPad is not a compiler. It might be possible, howe...

I can only apologise for any appearance of rudeness. Rest assured it was not deliberate. Actually, I've looked back at all my posts, and even in retrospect none of it sounds rude to me, but I'll apologise anyway coz I'm nice like that. As for putting it all in one thread ... it IS all in one thread....

poll is here

Discussion of other Unicode possibilities is here. (These are not what you're voting for in this poll though).

There's a poll on this now. You can vote on it. See "Unicode Conformance".

I've changed my mind about this. For reasons outlined in my other thread (Unicode Conformance), I don't think all this talk of conversion to UTF-8, etc., is appropriate HERE. The reason is simple. The ENCODING of a document is something which is not known (and cannot be known) until Save (or Save As...

In this thread I am going to list a number of algorithms and possible TextPad enhancements which go way beyond mere Unicode "Conformance". These are the kinds of things that people expect from Unicode. The ultimate promise, as it were, sadly, rarely delivered. I mention them here because I...